Word: processor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once you have the personal computer, there are plenty things you can do with it. As head of the Macintosh User's Group Christopher Carroll '86 says, "Most people just use the word processor for normal boring things like word processing...
Investigators believe that a day later Mengel abducted Beverly Capone, a 44- year-old mother, as she was leaving her job as a data processor at an IBM facility nearby. Using Capone's car as his getaway vehicle, Mengel headed for the Canadian border. Six days after the police officer was slain, authorities caught up with Mengel in Toronto, where he was arrested after crashing the car into a wall in a final attempt to escape. Inside, they found a gruesome clue to how Mengel may have crossed the border despite the bulletins for his arrest. A woman's scalp...
When it was released in late November, the President was coolly noncommittal to the details of the Treasury plan. Regan himself said the proposal was "written on a word processor." Translation: it could be easily altered. The plan elicited screams from every conceivable interest group, from charities to homebuilders. Lobbyists are already pressuring the Administration to reject provisions that would eliminate accelerated depreciation, which permits companies to write off plant and equipment faster than they actually wear out, and also oppose abolishing the tax preference for capital gains...
...more compromising, are no longer certain that science and technology signal the end of the world. Thomas Pynchon wrote in the New York Times Book Review last year that modern Luddites seem to be adjusting their antimechanical sensibilities to accommodate at least a few enticing inventions, like the word processor. There seems "a growing consensus," said Pynchon, "that knowledge really is power." Clearly, this is not the brash self-assurance Arnold deplored, but rather something far more deliberate and open-minded. In Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse, Arnold complained that he was "wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other...
Monroe Eagell, Lecturer on English "I'd like a better quality Printer for my word processor." And of he were Santa Claus? "I've just been struck by the efficiency of the new supersonic humidifiers. I'd like to give it to an asthmatic who needed...